We are delighted to announce that the 28th “Tagung der Computerlinguistik Studierenden” (Meetup of Computational Linguistics Students) will be held at the University of Potsdam. As was decided last year in Stuttgart, the TaCoS thereby returns to Potsdam after its long and sunny stay in the south. Proceedings will be from June 8th to June 10th.

Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it’s so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.